Paragons and Paragone: Van Eyck, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini woodland interpretation

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Cummins is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art and chair of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University

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Paragons and Paragone: Van Eyck, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini woodland interpretationRudolf Preimesberger The paragonethe notion of competition and rivalry among the artshas been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in the Renaissance, with sculptors vying with painters for superiority, modern artists competing with the ancients, and painting challenging poetry. If the traces of this lively conversation are most evident in the literature, the remarkable scholarship presented here demonstrates how the paragone